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His ascription to man of a unique faculty, free-will, forbade his conceiving our species as a link in a graduated series of organic developments.

The ascription of malevolence to the world of spirits is by no means universal.

1 994); the ascription depends on whether the patriarch Arsenius did or did not sojourn at Mount Athos.

We certainly need not suppose that the Davidic, Asaphic and Korahite psalms severally once existed as separate books, for, if this had been the case, it is probable that the ascription would not have been prefixed to each separate psalm, but rather to the head of each collection (cf.

The only possible question for the critic is whether the ascription of these psalms to David was due to the idea that he was the psalmist par excellence, to whom any poem of unknown origin was naturally ascribed, or whether we have in some at least of these titles an example of the habit so common in later Jewish literature of writing in the name of ancient worthies.